A 2000-yr-long multi-proxy lacustrine record from eastern Baffin Island, Arctic Canada reveals first millennium AD cold period

Quaternary Research

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 491-500

  Thomas, Elizabeth K ^a   Briner, Jason P ^b   Axford, Yarrow ^c   Francis, Donna R ^d   Miller, Gifford H ^e   Walker, Ian R ^f  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arctic; Baffin Island; Climate change; First Millennium AD; Lake sediments

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC; ARCTIC CANADA; BAFFIN ISLAND; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTIVITY; CARBON-NITROGEN RATIO; CHIRONOMIDAE; CHLOROPHYLL A; CHLOROPHYLL-A CONCENTRATION; CLIMATIC EPISODES; COLD CLIMATE; DIPTERA; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FIRST MILLENNIUM AD; LAKE SEDIMENTS; LITTLE ICE AGE; MULTIPLE TROPHIC LEVELS; ORGANIC MATTER; SURFACE SEDIMENTS; TIME INTERVAL;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CHLOROPHYLL; LAKES; LEAD; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE VARIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LEAD-LEAD DATING; LITTLE ICE AGE; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RADIOCARBON DATING; RECONSTRUCTION; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

ALASKA; BAFFIN ISLAND; CANADA; CANADIAN ARCTIC; NUNAVUT; UNITED STATES;

CHIRONOMIDAE; DIPTERA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 79955480508     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2011.03.003     Document Type: Article

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